The 55th annual bull sale in Medicine Hat, Alta., March 13 posted respectable averages on a good offering of 70 Hereford and 40 Angus herd sires from southern Alberta.
The Hereford sale averaged $4,462.
Bar Pipe Hereford Ranch of Okotoks, Alta., consigned the high selling bull for $15,000 to Durbin Creek Ranch in Wyoming.
Bar Pipe also had the best get of sire and best group of three bulls in the Hereford show.
The grand champion Hereford bull came from the Newton Herefords string at Del Bonita, Alta., and sold for $6,500 to Triple L Ranch of Irvine, Alta. The reserve was consigned by Lilybrook Herefords of Claresholm, Alta.
The Angus sale averaged $4,484.
The high selling bull was consigned by Dynomite Angus and sold to the Drowning Ford Grazing Association of Schuler, Alta., for $7,750.
Dynomite Angus also had the grand champion, which brought $5,000 from Hern Ranch of Bindloss, Alta. The reserve Angus bull was an entry from Reid Angus of Cochrane, Alta.
The Remount Grazing Association was the volume buyer.
